Special offer for Hutch pre-pay users

NEW DELHI: Delhi's Hutch pre-pay customers can now opt for special rates for call charges and SMS on paying extra on weekly basis depending on their plans for a week.

Hutch officials said that this 'satche' or 'pizza topping' approach would give customers flexibility to customise pre-pay plans, based on their short-duration needs.

Hutch will charge extra--above the recharge coupon--but company officials said that users would benefit from paying small, 'weekly' rentals and opting for customised services.

Once customers make choice(s) for the week after informing Hutch, the amount would be deducted from the pre-pay amount.

Under talk@99 plan, people will be able to call GSM subscribers for Rs 0.99 per minute and Rs 1.99 for landline/WLL-M phones by paying Rs 66 for a week. The current call charges are Rs 2.40 and Rs 2.80 respectively.

``This is the kind of offer that might suit people who have some special functions coming up or in certain emergencies,' said Hutchison Essar CEO Rajiv Sawhney.

Hutch officials said customers would recover the extra cost even if they make 60 calls a week or five a day, beyond which they stand to gain.

Similarly, customers can pay Rs 6 a week for SMS at 60 paise, instead of standard rate of Rs 1.50 and a flat call charge of Rs 0.99 for talk late (11:00 pm to 8 am). They would recover extra cost by sending 7 messages in that week and making four calls.